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DBMS > Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAnalytics Platform for Big DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iopostgis.netwww.splunk.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncSplunk Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2019200520031987
Current release3.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesPythonC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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